This wonderful, remarkable book is everything you're looking for in new fantasy. You're thinking, "I'd like something to capture the exuberant feeling I got reading Harry Potter." Or, "I need something awesome to tide me over until A Dance with Dragons comes out." And you'll get that, and so much more. HP starts to seem a little childish. And GRRM starts to seem like he can take his thousand character epic and shove it, because Kvothe's telling a better story and is only going to make us wait long enough to sweeten the eventual end. In short: READ THIS NOW, if not sooner.